push us to the next frontiers of alzheimer's research and other important biomedical research, and then say, this is not really my business -- i am not a budget person -- to worry about whether we're cutting too deeply in our discretionary domestic budget. what i have to say to folks is, you cannot pretend you care deeply about innovation and research and investing in early childhood and investing in science and stem education, if you are indifferent to whether or not we reduce our budget deficit by simply taking deeper and deeper cuts in the domestic discretionary budget. at some point, you get to a point where you are simply trading off between early childhood and biomedical research and higher education, and those are not cuts the american public wants us to make. when we talk about getting our fiscal discipline, our fiscal house in order, i want to remind people that when i was here in the early 1990's, one of the clarion calls, one of the reasons why people made that case was, if we had expanding deficits, it was not just that we would crowd out private capital, it was that we woul